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Congressional votes that precipitated the 2025 government shutdown split sharply along party lines in both chambers, with a handful of Democrats breaking with their party in the Senate to advance fund...
As of the 119th Congress (2025–2027) the available sources report no independents or third‑party members serving in the U.S. House of Representatives; official membership counts show the House divided...
It takes 60 votes in the Senate to invoke cloture and overcome a filibuster on a continuing resolution in most cases (three-fifths of the full Senate) — often described as “60 votes” when the Senate i...
As of the 119th Congress (2025–2027), available sources report that New England is represented in the U.S. Senate by one Republican senator: Susan Collins of Maine (the region otherwise has nine Democ...
Senate Democrats repeatedly blocked a Republican "clean" continuing resolution to end the government shutdown, with a pivotal procedural vote on October 28, 2025, failing 54-45 and falling short of th...
Republicans in the Senate have moved to advance a House-passed, GOP-backed continuing resolution to reopen and fund the government , but each cloture or advancement attempt has failed to reach the 60-...
New England’s 12 Senate seats in 2025 are , making the region markedly more Democratic than the country as a whole, where Republicans hold a narrow Senate majority. Nationally the Senate is reported a...
Bernie Sanders and Angus King have both caucused with Senate Democrats for years, giving Democrats effective additional votes that affected Senate control margins in 2017 and in the 2021 50–50 configu...
Two independents — Bernie Sanders (Vt.) and Angus King (Maine) — continue to caucus with Senate Democrats in the 119th Congress, and reporting and official Senate listings count them with the Democrat...
Eight Senate Democrats voted to advance the funding bill that ended the 2025 shutdown, giving the measure the 60 votes needed to overcome the filibuster; major outlets list those senators (including T...
Attorney General William Barr issued a four‑page, top‑line letter in March 2019 that framed Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s findings as clearing the Trump campaign of “collusion” and concluded the ev...
Congress has launched a mix of formal letters, committee hearings, funding maneuvers and new legislation to scrutinize the Veterans Affairs’ planned workforce reductions and related contractor actions...
The reporting shows a pattern: . Key Democratic leaders — Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries — framed the dispute around health-care tax credits, SNAP autho...
President Trump’s decision to move forward with a White House ballroom project is documented as a high-cost, privately funded renovation that has proceeded despite objections from preservationists and...
Two Democrats—Senators John Fetterman (Pa.) and Catherine Cortez Masto (Nev.)—and one independent who caucuses with Democrats, Angus King (Maine), crossed party lines to vote for a Republican-led “cle...
The currently contains 53 s, 45 Democrats and 2 independents who caucus with Democrats (effectively giving the caucus 47 votes for organizational purposes) . To convict a president in an impeachment t...
A slate of targeted procedural fixes—ranging from a “talking filibuster,” carve-outs for voting and democracy bills, a “step‑down” cloture process or one‑off nuclear option, and raising the floor for ...
The central negotiators who brokered the deal to reopen the government were Senate Majority Leader John Thune and the White House on the Republican side, working in tandem with a small group of Democr...
After the January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol, dozens of members of Congress — spanning Democrats, a few Republicans and some independents — publicly demanded that President Donald Trump be rem...
More than 200 members of the U.S. House and 38 U.S. Senators publicly called for President Donald J. Trump’s removal from office in the aftermath of the January 6 Capitol attack; that tally and a part...